An incredible paper by Meng et al. showing how the fluorescence of the flavoproteins iLOV and cryptochrome can be modulated by RF signals when held under certain magnetic fields. This work may provide a foundation for more RF tools which allow manipulation of biological processes.
Radio waves are shown to modulate fluorescence and associate spin chemistry in proteins.
Why does the immune system become less effective as we age? A new USC study published in BMC Biology offers fresh insights by examining a key immune cell type across tissues: macrophages.
Macrophages act as the body’s cleanup and maintenance crew. Found in nearly every tissue, they help fight infections, remove damaged cells, repair tissues and keep inflammation under control, acting as a first line of defense for the immune system. But like many cells in the body, macrophages change as we get older.
In this new study, researchers analyzed data from macrophages collected from different mouse tissues, including the brain, lungs, liver and other organs. By comparing younger and older animals, they uncovered common patterns of aging shared across many macrophage populations, as well as important differences depending on where the cells come from.
What if your brain isn’t producing your thoughts? What if it’s just receiving them?
For centuries, science has treated the brain like a \.
In this episode, the mates and Steven Kotler sit down with Ray Kurzweil to discuss AGI, the future, and more.
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Ray Kurzweil is an American inventor and futurist best known for his pioneering work in optical character recognition and his predictions regarding the technological singularity.
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Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the City University of New York Graduate Center (CUNY-ASRC) have demonstrated something English mathematician and physicist Sir Roger Penrose predicted over 50 years ago. According to Penrose, it would be possible to extract energy from a rapidly spinning (Kerr) black hole by inserting an object into the region just beyond its event horizon (the ergosphere). This object would be accelerated and ejected from the region, carrying more energy than it did when it entered/
In 1971, Soviet physicist Yakov Zeldovich came along and built on this theorem (the Penrose Process), predicting that a wave interacting with a rapidly-spinning object could not only extract energy from it, but amplify it. In a paper recently published in Nature, the team (all members of CUNY-ASRC Photonics Initiative) demonstrated a new approach for amplifying waves through interaction with rotating bodies. Using a radio-frequency device modulated to mimic spinning, they created a synthetic form of ultrafast rotation far beyond what can be achieved mechanically.
Their device and the physical principles it utilizes could allow researchers to overcome limitations that have long hindered experimental studies of ultra-fast rotational dynamics. It consists of a ring-shaped network of electronic resonators whose properties were rapidly modulated in a timed sequence to produce a traveling pattern around the ring. While the device remained still, the traveling pattern of electromagnetic waves created a form of synthetic motion that mimics an object rotating at ultra-fast speed.